The Galata Sea Museum is set to become the first in Italy to allow visitors to come aboard a floating submarine.
The Nazario Sauro, built in the 1970s, is currently tied up the arsenal of this nothwestern port city but in the future it will have its own berth at the Galata Museum.
The Nazario Sauro is the third and largest decommissioned submarine to find a museum home after the Toti at the Milan's Science and Technology Museum and the Dandolo at the Aresenale in Venice.
However, it is will be the first to take on to visitors in its own element, floating on the water. The other two vessels are on land.
The Nazarino Sauro is 64m long and can navigate at 12 knots an hour on the surface and 19 knots under water. It has six torpedo tubes and when in service it carried a crew of 49.
The submarine has been revamped to meet its future needs as a tourist attraction, including the addition of several multimedia stations to give visitors a real-life simulation of underwater navigation.
The submarine attraction is expected to be ready by this autumn.
